Headmistress Sarah Burton, a left-wing feminist, is disgusted by the social injustices faced by her pupils. In spite of her beliefs, she reluctantly finds herself falling in love with a Tory landowner whose wife is suffering from insanity.
With dad in jail and mum in Cyprus with her latest lover, Danny, sketch pad and unfinished painting in tow, meets Izzy, new in Hull who aint going anywhere - but then his mad aunt rocks up and s*** hits the fan. Thank God for Grandad.
Historian Bettany Hughes looks at the struggles between man and the environment on the British Isles since 6000 BCE. In collaboration with some of the country's top archaeologists and historians, here's the unofficial history of Britain.
